" This is the significance of black power as a slogan. For once, black people are going to use the words they want to use-- not just the words whites want them to hear.... The need for psychological equality is the reason why SNCC today believes that blacks must organize in the black community. Only black people can.... create in the community an aroused and continuing black consciousness...."
- from the New York Review of Books, September 1966
" This is the significance of black power as a slogan. For once, black people are going to use the words they want to use-- not just the words whites want them to hear.... The need for psychological equality is the reason why SNCC today believes that blacks must organize in the black community. Only black people can.... create in the community an aroused and continuing black consciousness...."
- from the New York Review of Books, September 1966
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